President Hugo Chavez's speech on climate change in Copenhagen
December 17th 2009
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez:
Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, friends, I promise that I will not talk more than most have spoken this afternoon. Allow me an initial comment which I would have liked to make as part of the previous point which was expressed by the delegations of Brazil, China, India, and Bolivia. We were there asking to speak but it was not possible. Bolivia's representative said, my salute of course to Comrade President Evo Morales, who is there, President of the Republic of Bolivia.
Join the 2010 `May Day’ solidarity brigade to Venezuela!
Brigade dates: April 24 - May 2, 2010
Registrations close February 1, 2010
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s brigades to Venezuela are a once-in-a-lifetime experience - the opportunity to see first-hand an unfolding revolution that is not only radically transforming the lives of Venezuelans, but is challenging the greed, exploitation and destructiveness of global capitalism by showing that a better world is possible.
AVSN Statement - CONDEMN THE COUP IN HONDURAS:
Statement by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN)
CONDEMN THE COUP IN HONDURAS:
The Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) strongly condemns the undemocratic coup conducted by a small group of military, members of the oligarchy and their political agents in Honduras. The violent kidnapping and expulsion to Costa Rica of democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya is a ruthless attack on the rights of the Honduran people to freely elect their own leaders, and decide their own political future.
SYDNEY - Spanish-language screening & discussion of "Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela"
Spanish-language screening and discussion with Pablo Navarrete, the director of the new documentary "Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela"
7pm, Friday, February 26th
Uruguay Fairfield City Futbol Club, The Boulevarde, Fairfield Heights
SYDNEY - Premiere screening of "Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela"
Sydney premiere of the new film "Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela", plus a discussion with the director, Pablo Navarrete.
GEELONG - Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela film screening & discussion with the director
February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office, following a landslide election victory, and launched his revolution to bring radical change to Venezuela. While wildly popular with many in the country, Chavez's policies and his strongly-worded criticisms of the U.S. government have also made him powerful enemies, both at home and abroad, especially in the media.
SYDNEY - Public forum on Indigenous survival & resistance: Venezuela, Bolivia, Australia
Indigenous people in Venezuela have gained more rights and improvements in their living conditions after 10 years of government led by President Hugo Chavez than in the previous 500 years since colonisation. Evo Morales is Latin America's first Indigenous president and has introduced significant improvements to the lives of the Indigenous majority in Bolivia. But in Australia, the plight of Indigenous people continues to deteriorate.
MELBOURNE - Premiere screening of Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela
Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela
February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office, following a landslide election victory, and launched his revolution to bring radical change to Venezuela. While wildly popular with many in the country, Chavez's policies and his strongly-worded criticisms of the U.S. government have also made him powerful enemies, both at home and abroad, especially in the media.
`An experience none of us will forget’: The December 2009 solidarity brigade to Venezuela
Report by Federico Fuentes, Caracas
Speaking to activists in the “Rebirth of the South” Commune in Valencia, solidarity brigade participant Arul from the Socialist Party of Malaysia commented that, since arriving in Venezuela, many of his friends had been asking if he had met President Hugo Chavez already. He had told them, “while I have not met Hugo Chavez, what I have discovered is that all the people I have met in Venezuela carry a Chavez within, because it is the people, together with Chavez, who are driving this revolution forward”.
An experience none of us will forget: Report from the December 2009 AVSN solidarity brigade
Report by Federico Fuentes, Caracas
Speaking to activists in the “Rebirth of the South” Commune in Valencia, solidarity brigade participant Arul from the Socialist Party of Malaysia commented that, since arriving in Venezuela, many of his friends had been asking if he had met President Hugo Chavez already. He had told them, “while I have not met Hugo Chavez, what I have discovered is that all the people I have met in Venezuela carry a Chavez within, because it is the people, together with Chavez, who are driving this revolution forward”.
